I can't believe May is almost over and summer is almost upon us!!! To kick it off, Rebecca and I each have a couple of books to give away.
You MUST be a GFC follower of Stuff & Nonsense in order to be entered for the giveaway. It's easy peasy to do. Just look over to the right sidebar and click Follow under the GFC Followers widget.
Then leave a comment telling us what plans you have (or had) this Memorial
Day weekend to remember and honor all those who have died in active military
service to our great country.
You are welcome to tell us which books you would prefer to enter the giveaway for but we make no guarantee you will win the ones you want.
Don't forget to leave your email address in a non-spam format -- jane at here dot com -- so we can contact you if you win. We will choose TWO winners, one for Rebecca's books and one for mine, on Thursday, May 31. Winners will be notified by email and have 48 hours to respond before a new winner(s) will be chosen. Due to postage costs, the book giveaway is only open to US residents in the lower 48 states. We are not responsible for lost or damaged goods received. Once the books are dropped at the USPS, they are out of our hands....literally. :-)
You MUST be a GFC follower of Stuff & Nonsense in order to be entered for the giveaway. It's easy peasy to do. Just look over to the right sidebar and click Follow under the GFC Followers widget.
Then leave a comment telling us what plans you have (or had) this Memorial
Day weekend to remember and honor all those who have died in active military
service to our great country. You are welcome to tell us which books you would prefer to enter the giveaway for but we make no guarantee you will win the ones you want.
Don't forget to leave your email address in a non-spam format -- jane at here dot com -- so we can contact you if you win. We will choose TWO winners, one for Rebecca's books and one for mine, on Thursday, May 31. Winners will be notified by email and have 48 hours to respond before a new winner(s) will be chosen. Due to postage costs, the book giveaway is only open to US residents in the lower 48 states. We are not responsible for lost or damaged goods received. Once the books are dropped at the USPS, they are out of our hands....literally. :-)
BUT....
I am also giving away a $5 Amazon e-gift card to one INTERNATIONAL follower.
Just let me know what country you are in, please. :-)
Now for the books!
Rebecca's Giveaway
#1- The
Accidental Guardian (High Sierra Sweethearts #1) by Mary Connealy
She's the only witness to a wagon train attack. Keeping her safe,
though, means his world is about to be turned upside down.
Book Blurb: When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes an attack by the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he's finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail. He'd hoped the days of driving off dangerous men were over, but the latest attack shows otherwise.
Deborah Harkness saved her younger sister and two toddlers during the attack, and now finds herself at the mercy of her rescuer. Trace becomes an accidental guardian when he offers the only shelter for miles around and agrees to take them in until they can safely continue their journey. His simple bachelor existence never anticipated kids and women in the picture and their arrival is unsettling--yet enticing.
Trace and Deborah find themselves drawing ever closer as they work together to bring justice to the trail and help the group survive the winter--but every day closer to spring means a day closer to leaving the mountains forever.
Book Blurb: When Trace Riley finds the smoldering ruins of a small wagon train, he recognizes an attack by the same group who left him as sole survivor years ago. Living off the wilderness since then, he's finally carved out a home and started a herd--while serving as a self-appointed guardian of the trail. He'd hoped the days of driving off dangerous men were over, but the latest attack shows otherwise.
Deborah Harkness saved her younger sister and two toddlers during the attack, and now finds herself at the mercy of her rescuer. Trace becomes an accidental guardian when he offers the only shelter for miles around and agrees to take them in until they can safely continue their journey. His simple bachelor existence never anticipated kids and women in the picture and their arrival is unsettling--yet enticing.
Trace and Deborah find themselves drawing ever closer as they work together to bring justice to the trail and help the group survive the winter--but every day closer to spring means a day closer to leaving the mountains forever.
AND....
#2- The
Weaver's Daughter by Sarah E. Ladd
Book
Blurb: Kate's
loyalties bind her to the past. Henry's loyalties compel him to strive for a
better future. In a landscape torn between tradition and vision, can two souls
find the strength to overcome their preconceptions?
Loyalty has been at the heart of the Dearborne family for as long as Kate can remember, but a war is brewing in their small village, one that has the power to rip families asunder --including her own. As misguided actions are brought to light, she learns how deep her father's pride and bitterness run, and she begins to wonder if her loyalty is well-placed.
Henry Stockton, heir to the Stockton fortune, returns home from three years at war seeking refuge from his haunting memories. Determined to bury the past, he embraces his grandfather's goals to modernize his family's wool mill, regardless of the grumblings from the local weavers. When tragedy strikes shortly after his arrival, Henry must sort truth from suspicion if he is to protect his family's livelihood and legacy.
Henry has been warned about the Dearborne family. Kate, too, has been advised to stay far away from the Stocktons, but chance meetings continue to bring her to Henry's side, blurring the jagged lines between loyalty, justice, and truth. Kate ultimately finds herself with the powerful decision that will forever affect her village's future. As unlikely adversaries, Henry and Kate must come together to find a way to create peace for their families, and their village, and their souls - even if it means risking their hearts in the process.
Loyalty has been at the heart of the Dearborne family for as long as Kate can remember, but a war is brewing in their small village, one that has the power to rip families asunder --including her own. As misguided actions are brought to light, she learns how deep her father's pride and bitterness run, and she begins to wonder if her loyalty is well-placed.
Henry Stockton, heir to the Stockton fortune, returns home from three years at war seeking refuge from his haunting memories. Determined to bury the past, he embraces his grandfather's goals to modernize his family's wool mill, regardless of the grumblings from the local weavers. When tragedy strikes shortly after his arrival, Henry must sort truth from suspicion if he is to protect his family's livelihood and legacy.
Henry has been warned about the Dearborne family. Kate, too, has been advised to stay far away from the Stocktons, but chance meetings continue to bring her to Henry's side, blurring the jagged lines between loyalty, justice, and truth. Kate ultimately finds herself with the powerful decision that will forever affect her village's future. As unlikely adversaries, Henry and Kate must come together to find a way to create peace for their families, and their village, and their souls - even if it means risking their hearts in the process.
Anne’s Giveaway
#1- A Quilt for Jenna (Apple Creek Dreams #1) by Patrick E. Craig
Book Blurb: Amish + Quilts = readers delight! And in this first book in Patrick Craig's Apple Creek Dreams series, readers will follow Jerusha Springer's journey out of tragic circumstances to a new life of hope.
Jerusha has spent months making the most beautiful quilt anyone in Apple Creek, Ohio, has ever seen, and she knows it's going to take first prize at the Quilt Fair in Dalton. The prize will be her ticket out of the Amish way of life?away from the memories of her dead daughter and her tormented husband. But on the way to the Fair, she gets caught in the Storm of The Century and Jerusha's driver crashes their car. While the driver goes for help, Jerusha is led by someone, or something, to the side of a lost little girl. By the time the storm clears, Jerusha finds there is a greater prize to be won than money and blue ribbons.
A beautiful story of loss and redemption.
AND...
#2- Where Lilacs Still Bloom by Jane Kirkpatrick
One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through.
Book Blurb: German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose: a time-consuming interest in plant hybridization that puts her at odds with family and community, as she challenges the early twentieth-century expectations for a simple housewife.
Through the years, seasonal floods continually threaten to erase her Woodland, Washington garden and a series of family tragedies cause even Hulda to question her focus. In a time of practicality, can one person’s simple gifts of beauty make a difference?
Based on the life of Hulda Klager, Where Lilacs Still Bloom is a story of triumph over an impossible dream and the power of a generous heart.
“Beauty matters… it does. God gave us flowers for a reason. Flowers remind us to put away fear, to stop our rushing and running and worrying about this and that, and for a moment, have a piece of paradise right here on earth.”
Here's a recap of the GIVEAWAY rules!
You MUST be a GFC
follower of Stuff & Nonsense in order to be entered for the giveaway. It's easy peasy to do.
Just look over to the right sidebar and click Follow under the GFC Followers
widget.
Then leave a comment telling us what plans you have (or had) this Memorial
Day weekend to remember and honor all those who have died in active military
service to our great country.
You
are welcome to tell us which books you would prefer to enter the
giveaway for but we make no guarantee you will win the ones you want.
Don't forget to leave your email address in a non-spam
format -- jane at here dot com -- so we can contact you if you win. We will choose TWO winners, one for Rebecca's books and one for
mine, on Thursday, May 31. Winners will be notified by email and have 48
hours to respond before a new winner(s) will be chosen. Due to
postage costs, the book giveaway is only open to US residents in the
lower 48 states. We are not responsible for lost or damaged goods
received. Once the books are dropped at the USPS, they are out of our
hands....literally. :-)
BUT....
I am also giving away a $5 Amazon e-gift card to one INTERNATIONAL follower.
Just let me know what country you are in, please. :-)
I think that's it, Y'all!
Have a safe and blessed weekend no matter where you are in our beautiful world!!!
May God richly bless you with his presence, mercy and grace!
Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out
against me, even then I will be confident. One thing I ask from the LORD, this
only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my
life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple. ~Psalm
27:3-4
